Jon Ossoff is the 39-year-old junior U.S. Senator from Georgia, first elected in a 2021 runoff. Before his Senate election, he was an investigative journalist and filmmaker who produced documentaries exposing corruption and human trafficking. He worked as a national security staffer for U.S. Representative Hank Johnson. Ossoff was previously a candidate for the U.S. House in 2017, narrowly losing in a special election. He is the youngest incumbent U.S. senator and serves on the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Ossoff was born in Atlanta on February 16, 1987, and grew up in what is now Georgia's 6th congressional district. His father is an attorney of Russian and Lithuanian Jewish descent; his mother is an Australian immigrant. He is the youngest incumbent U.S. senator and has been described as the 'first Extremely Online senator.' Before entering electoral politics, he was an investigative filmmaker and journalist, producing documentaries exposing corruption, human trafficking, and organized crime, and worked as a national security staffer for U.S. Representative Hank Johnson. He is married to Dr. Alisha Kramer, an OB/GYN resident at Emory University; they have two daughters.